Pebble Beach Golf Links
From the first hole, the golfer quickly realizes that this is no typical West
Coast resort course, tucked tightly between condos and designed within economics
of scale. This course is larger than life, boasting mature stands of trees,
roller coaster greens and bunkers in which you could easily hide one of the
bigger sport utility vehicles. But it looks as if the course has taken a hundred
years to develop this way and indeed it nearly has. The first 9-hole track was
laid out along the cove in 1913. Golf Digest has ranked the Pebble Beach Golf
Links as the number one golf course on its list of "America's 100 Greatest
Golf Courses." This represents the first year that Pebble Beach has
achieved the number one ranking. This ranking also marks the first time in the
history of the publication that a public golf course has achieved the number one
spot.
Spyglass Hill Golf Course
With a name inspired by the Robert Louis
Stevenson novel Treasure Island , Spyglass Hill is the toughest golf course in
Northern California and among the most difficult in the world (ratings are
from the championship tees). Designed by the legendary Robert Trent Jones and
opened in 1966, the course was immediately recognized as a true test of golf
skills and an opportunity to utilize every club in the bag.
The Links at Spanish Bay
Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., Tom Watson and Frank
"Sandy" Tatum, The Links at Spanish Bay is America's foremost
Scottish-style linksland course; even the rugged Monterey coastline mirrors
the natural beauty of Scotland. From the rolling fairways, white sand dunes
and gusting winds to the plaintive strains of the bagpipe that signals the end
of each day's play, The Links at Spanish Bay is an elegant, challenging
journey into golf's beginnings.
Del Monte Golf Course
Opened in 1897, Del Monte Golf Course is the oldest course in
continuous operation west of the Mississippi. Designed by golf and polo
enthusiast Charles Maud, this inland course boasts a meandering, hilly layout
that has challenged golfers for more than a century. It was the original host
of the California State Amateur-still played on Del Monte's narrow, tree-lined
fairways and small, well-protected greens- and continues to serve as one of
the three courses on which the Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational is
played.